Leefeller, exactly correct. We should not allow the few to dictate to the many.
The churches of America, have more money than they know
what to do with, and they still ask for more. Yet push comes to shove and they scream bloody murder, because they are ‘protected’ and should not pay taxes on their income.
Well, it is certainly high time that any church, in the U.S. start to pay their fair share of the burden of the economy, and this without any protection from taxes. If there is a G-d, then G-d will provide all they need, if not then these charlatans should not exist at all. Any of the myriad of churches available
would undoubtedly fall by the wayside immediately if they had to pay for the privilege of preaching their nonsense to an unwilling public.
I agree that these men and women who supposedly preach ‘G-d’s’ word are nothing more than fakes and fakirs without so much as anything to back up their words. Most of the televangelists would immediately fold up their ministries if they had to pay taxes on any income they received as part of their message.
I do not understand this countries abhorrence to taxing a business, nor do I understand the reasoning behind not taxing these so-called ministries.
All these people do is beg for money, well if the people who have been hoodwinked by these charlatans could not claim tax-exempt status on the money they give to these thieves, then the general public would certainly not give any money to the preachers who have hoodwinked these foolish people.

My husband says: “Marriage is between a man and his concubines.”

I have long been disturbed by the Roman Catholic Church’s engagement in politics, working against death with dignity, gay marriage, abortion and contraception. Why are these churches never investigated for their forays into political action? Is it simply too controversial for any state attorney general? It outrages me that a church, which condoned pedophilia for decades (and sexual abuse in general for centuries), has the gall to make pronouncements on gay marriage. But then we’re back again to MoNoMo’s comment that leaving the church is a far worse sin than molestation.

Leefeller, you might be interested in what turning the other cheek means. In first century Palestine your superior would slap you with the back of his hand on your right cheek. If you turned the other cheek, he would be forced to slap you with his open hand, which was the form between EQUALS. Yeshua bar Yosef was rather a clever man, which is why most Christians have no interest in his teachings.

Absolutely. If Big Church is going to play Big Politics then it’s time to pay Big Taxes.

Tax the f…ing moron arse holes and their holy underwear!

I am not a Christian, so my tolerance level is not quite up to those higher prestigious standards of Christianity, you know turning the other cheek and treat others as I would treat people I do not like.

Hypocrisy, need only be defined by the actions of the religious.